Confirmed election result: Sauli Niinistö was elected President
2012

In the second round of the Presidential
election Sauli Niinistö clearly defeated his rival candidate Pekka
Haavisto. The total number of votes cast for Niinistö was
1,802,328, which is 62.6 per cent of all votes cast.
Pekka Haavisto, the runner-up, received 1,077,425 votes, that
is, 37.4 per cent of all votes cast. Sauli Niinistö
received 724,903 more votes than Pekka Haavisto in the
second round of the elections. Compared with the first round of the
election, the number of votes cast for Niinistö grew by
671,074 votes (by 25.6 percentage points) and that
for Haavisto by 503,150 votes (by
18.6 percentage points). The data are based on Statistics
Finland's statistics on the confirmed election result from the
second round of the Presidential election 2012.

Support for the presidential candidates by
constituency in Presidential election 2012, second round

Niinistö beat Haavisto in the second round of the Presidential
election in all constituencies of Mainland Finland, only in the
constituency of Åland Haavisto got more votes than Niinistö. The
support for Niinistö was highest in the constituency of Vaasa,
where he received 72.3 per cent of all votes. In the
constituency of Helsinki Niinistö defeated Haavisto by a narrow
margin, gaining 50.1 per cent of the votes cast: the
difference between the support for the candidates was only
739 votes. In Mainland Finland only in the municipality of
Kolari in the constituency of Lapland the support for Niinistö
remained lower than that for Haavisto, being
44.9 per cent of votes cast. The support for Niinistö was
highest in the municipality of Soini in the constituency of Vaasa,
where he received 86.0 per cent of all votes cast. In
addition to Helsinki, the support for Niinistö was also lower than
average in Jyväskylä (52.7%), Turku (54.9%), Oulu (57.5%) and
Tampere (57.7%).

Voting turnout fell distinctly in the second round of the
Presidential election

In the second round the voting turnout of Finnish citizens
resident in Finland remained at 68.9 per cent, which was
3.9 per cent lower than in the first round two weeks ago.
Compared with the second round of the 2006 election, the voting
turnout went down by 8.3 percentage points. Voting
turnout in Presidential elections has last been lower than this in
the elector college elections in 1950. The voting turnout fell in
the second round particularly on the actual election day. In the
second round of the Presidential election the number of advance
voters was higher than the number of voters on the actual election
day.

Voting was the most active in the constituency of Helsinki,
where the voting turnout was 74.8 per cent. The voting
turnout also rose over 70 per cent in the constituencies
of Uusimaa (73.2%), Varsinais-Suomi (71.0%) and Pirkanmaa (70.6%).
After the constituency of Åland (55.8%), the voting turnout was
lowest in the constituencies of Lapland (62.0%), North Karelia
(62.4%) and North Savo (63.0%). Of municipalities in Mainland
Finland voting was the most active in Kauniainen, in the
constituency of Uusimaa, where the voting turnout was
85.8 per cent and the least active in Hyrynsalmi in the
constituency of Oulu, where the voting turnout was only
48.6 per cent.

Compared with the first round of the Presidential election,
voting turnout declined in all constituencies. The voting turnout
went down most in the constituencies of Lapland
(-9.6 percentage points) and Oulu
(-6.6 percentage points). The voting turnout fell least
in the constituencies of Åland (-0.6 percentage points)
and Helsinki (-1.8 percentage points).

Voting turnout of Finnish citizens living in
Finland in Presidential election 2012, second and first round

Constituency

2nd round
2012

1st round
2012

Whole country

68.9

72.8

Helsinki

74.8

76.6

Uusimaa

73.2

75.6

Varsinais-Suomi

71.0

73.6

Satakunta

67.4

71.9

Häme

68.8

71.8

Pirkanmaa

70.6

73.6

Kymi

66.7

70.7

South Savo

65.4

69.4

North Savo

63.0

68.9

North Karelia

62.4

67.0

Vaasa

67.4

73.4

Central Finland

66.4

71.8

Oulu

64.4

71.0

Lapland

62.0

71.6

Åland

55.8

56.4

Statistics Finland's free-of-charge election result
services

Statistics Finland's election map service provides data
illustrated by maps and charts on the Presidential election 2012.
Maps and bar charts can be used to examine such as voting turnout
and its changes from the previous Presidential elections,
candidates with most votes and shares of votes in different area
levels. Maps are available by municipality, constituency and in the
largest towns by voting district.

More detailed election result data are available as database
tables by constituency, municipality and voting district. The
database can be used for building diverse sets of tables and
convert data to other file formats for further processing.